Title:
Mobile
Enterprise Resource Planning: New Technology Horizons
Abstract: Given
the business globalization, complete integration is a major goal of
information resource management. The applications and data are combined
in integrated entities providing not only access to information, but
also internal and external economic process management. The first case
refers to organizational internal processes and is achieved with ERP
packages. External integration concerns customer and supply chain
connection to the organizational environment for the performance of
economic processes and it cannot be achieved if there is no internal
information coherence (an ERP system). In the last decade, ERP has
continued to expand, blurring the boundaries of the core system. The
number of modules and the extended functionality offered in the ERP
suites have progressively grown making integration a greater challenge
for the enterprise. Simultaneously, the market trends – consolidation,
verticalization and specialization – have a broader effect than just on
ERP. Also, wireless applications provide new opportunities for
organizations, enabling access to relevant information from anywhere
and at anytime. In order to take advantage from the features of
ubiquitous environment, ERP systems have to support the mobile
behaviour of their users. The present paper is an exploratory analysis
of the current stage regarding the mobile applications and services for
companies, the achievements in the field and proposes an architecture
model for the mobile services starting from the necessary unidentified
functionalities for a portal of mobile services. Besides the general
architecture of a portal of mobile applications for companies, a set of
minimal functionalities for implementation is proposed in order to
ensure the promotion and use of services.
Authors: Octavian
Dospinescu, Doina Fotache, Bogdanel Adrian Munteanu, and Luminita
Hurbean